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JNLR 2014 Q4 Top Thirty

And now, in true radio style, it’s the top thirty. Only seven of the nation’s top thirty have put on listeners over the twelve months with the other twenty three dropping listeners. Nine of the top shows are on a Saturday, six on a Sunday and the final fifteen are all weekday programmes.

There are two new entrants in the shape of Alison Curtis on Today FM and Pat Kenny on Newstalk, bizarrely enough. as he’d only literally warmed the chair at this point last year. The two programmes that lost out and fell from the top thirty are George Hook (-4,000) and Dermot and Dave (-10,000).

The top ten remained in the top ten in their same pecking order, although all with reduced numbers collectively* shaking off 7% of their listeners. Morning Ireland was still the biggest draw attracting 426,000 listeners but down down 5% in the previous year. Then comes Liveline some 48,000 listeners behind Morning Ireland and attracting 378,000 every day and Marian takes slots three and four. *Mathematically spurious given duplication etc – but still it’s just for affect.

2014Q4

2013Q4

Ch ‘000

Ch %

#’13

1

Radio1

W/D

07.00-09.00

Morning Ireland

426

449

-23

-5.1%

1

2

Radio1

W/D

13.45-15.00

Liveline

378

399

-21

-5.3%

2

3

Radio1

Sat

11.00-13.00

Marian Finucane

366

376

-10

-2.7%

3

4

Radio1

Sun

11.00-13.00

Marian Finucane

351

353

-2

-0.6%

4

5

Radio1

W/D

13.00-13.45

News at One

312

349

-37

-10.6%

5

6

Radio1

W/D

10.00-12.00

Sean O’Rourke

298

327

-29

-8.9%

6

7

Radio1

W/D

09.00-10.00

John Murray

295

324

-29

-9.0%

7

8

Radio1

Sat

10.00-11.00

The Business

278

322

-44

-13.7%

8

9

Radio1

Sat

09.00-10.00

Playback

259

290

-31

-10.7%

9

10

Radio1

Sun

10.00-11.00

Miriam Meets

239

261

-22

-8.4%

10

11

Radio1

W/D

16.30-19.00

Drivetime

222

242

-20

-8.3%

11

12

Today

W/D

09.00-12.00

The Ray D’Arcy Show

215

230

-15

-6.5%

13

13

Radio1

W/D

12.00-13.00

Ronan Collins

209

230

-21

-9.1%

13

14

Radio1

Sat

13.00-14.00

Brian Dowling

206

226

-20

-8.8%

16

15

Radio1

Sun

09.00-10.00

Sunday Miscellany

206

241

-35

-14.5%

12

16

Radio1

Sat

08.00-09.00

Countrywide

202

228

-26

-11.4%

15

17

Radio1

Sun

13.00-14.00

This Week

198

177

21

11.9%

20

18

Radio1

W/D

15.00-16.30

Mooney

193

219

-26

-11.9%

17

19

Today

W/D

07.00-09.00

Ian Dempsey

187

189

-2

-1.1%

18

20

2FM

W/D

08.45-11.00*

Tubridy

177

152

25

16.4%

24

21

Radio1

Sat

14.00-18.00

Sport

176

185

-9

-4.9%

19

22

Radio1

Sun

14.00-18.00

Sport

176

171

5

2.9%

21

23

Newstalk

W/D

07.00-10.00

Breakfast

165

126

39

31.0%

29

24

Today

W/D

16.30-19.00

Matt Cooper

154

160

-6

-3.8%

23

25

Radio1

Sun

08.00-09.00

World Report

153

161

-8

-5.0%

22

26

Newstalk

W/D

10.00-12.30

Pat Kenny

142

96

46

47.9%

39

27

2FM

W/D

11.00-14.00*

Nicky Byrne

140

134

6

4.5%

26

28

Today

Sat

08.00-11.00*

Alison Curtis

135

84

51

60.7%

43

29

Today

Sat

11.00-14.00

Phil Cawley

135

135

0

0.0%

25

30

Today

Sat

14.00-18.00

Sport

132

133

-1

-0.8%

27

Gains

Looking at those on the margins now we see that the biggest gain was Alison Curtis, per say. The asterisk denotes that because of a time slot change the figures between 2014Q4 and 2013Q4 are not directly comparable. In this case the 8:00-11:00 show is compared to the 10:00-11:00 show in ‘13Q4. Same with Tubridy where a clever 15 minutes was added to the show so it commenced at 8:45 as opposed to 9:00 – which seems to have worked.

# ’14

Station

Day

Time

Programme

2014Q4

2013Q4

Ch ‘000

Ch %

28

Today

Sat

08.00-11.00*

Alison Curtis

135

84

51

60.7%

26

Newstalk

W/D

10.00-12.30

Pat Kenny

142

96

46

47.9%

23

Newstalk

W/D

07.00-10.00

Breakfast

165

126

39

31.0%

20

2FM

W/D

08.45-11.00*

Tubridy

177

152

25

16.4%

17

Radio1

Sun

13.00-14.00

This Week

198

177

21

11.9%

Falls

Of those who lost out the greatest, all bar none came from Radio 1 and four of them from the weekend schedule and three of them on Saturday. I’m not reading in to much on that – merely highlighting the fact that Saturday 8:00 until 11:00 looks under pressure.